Cathie English, Ph.D.@CathieEnglish@mas.tomas.to

I also tried to add a description of my avatar and banner for the visually impaired but I ran out of space on the profile albeit trying to explain the political cartoon took too many words. It is the year anniversary of 9-11 with Uncle Sam looking at flyers with photos that say lost or missing. In the original drawing you can see the twin towers smoldering in the background. It has MLK’s words, “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

My first #introduction: I teach #English at #MissouriStateUniversity. Mostly #EnglishEducation I’m interested in #communityliteracy and #digitalliteracy and #placeconsciousliteracy I’m also a huge fan of #yal and #graphicnovels and all things #starwars and #StarTrek I read, I write, I walk, I swim, I bake, I cook, I grandparent….just to name a few. #mastadonmigration

Some people think I don't have a sense of humor, but I think cancelling a Trump rally with a thunderstorm is pretty hilarious.

"In 2022, ADL tabulated 3,697 antisemitic incidents throughout the United States. This is a 36% increase from the 2,717 incidents tabulated in 2021 and the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979."

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2022

She is Risen!

Have a pleasant and peaceful Easter, y'all. <3

It can’t be said enough how right Hillary Clinton was. About everything.

#Democracy It’s rare when I disagree with Mika Brzezinski, but she believes that 60 Minutes was right to interview MTG. To hear her accuse Democrats, including President Biden of being pedophiles bc of supporting trans medical interventions, is beyond the pale. Too many gullible ppl believe that disgusting stupidity. Fox has done a fantastic job of negatively damaging the country, CBS shouldn’t be as well.

Three children and two adults were murdered today in a school shooting in Nashville. Here are the gun laws in Tennessee:

NO state permit required to purchase

NO firearm registration

NO owner license required

NO permit required for concealed carry

NO permit required for open carry

NO background checks for private sales

And the state can preempt local laws.

You cannot shoot a child if you don’t have a gun. It’s that simple.

Elon Musk embraces “freemium” business model for Twitter, wherein you are free to leave Twitter for Mastodon.

Folks do know that David Koresh raped numerous teenage and pre-teen girls in his cult, right? He was a rapist. He called these girls his "wives" and raped them. Girls as young as 11. I know there's this bizarre effort to paint him as a martyr, but he raped children.

Today, there is no depositor run on banks generally. There are investors moving their money out of (parts of) the banking sector. This is what should happen, especially in under-regulated parts of the banking industry: private investors want to be assured that banks are managing affairs better than #SVB and #SignatureBank did. This is how capital markets discipline risky businesses. #banks #banking

If I had a dollar for every time someone used my name to justify their hatred and bigotry, I could fund universal healthcare in every country.

No book in America should be ever be banned. But if I had authored a book that was also banned by Ron DeSantis or any other Governor, I'd know I was speaking the truth — and that they were afraid of hearing it.

#Democracy under siege in #Mexico, as explained by @anneapplebaum. https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2023/03/01/in-his-fight-against-democracy-mexicos-president-is-a-heavy-favorite/

Today I'm headed to Atlanta to support the Black, Indigenous, youth and elders who are putting their bodies in the way of 85 acres of mature forest slated for destruction to build a massive police training facility #StopCopCity
@defendATLforest
http://stopcopcitysolidarity.org 1/

PSA: I really like Mastodon (much more than Twitter) and I want to just make sure I'm finding the right audience here.

I'm an immigration researcher with a modest but not insignificant public profile. My goal is to make non-partisan immigration data available and accessible to the public, which is why I primarily post about immigration.

If you want to stay up-to-date with immigration, consider sharing this and giving me a follow. Thanks!

#immigration #asylum @immigration

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

They're everywhere!
#gardening #gardens #gardener #gardensofmastodon #Gardenscapes

Botanical
By Amy Goacomelli